yergler.net » grok http://yergler.net Because eventually I'll be right. Theoretically. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:43:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pre-read: Grok 1.0 Web Development http://yergler.net/blog/2010/03/16/pre-read-grok-1-0-web-development/ http://yergler.net/blog/2010/03/16/pre-read-grok-1-0-web-development/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:14:50 +0000 Nathan Yergler http://yergler.net/?p=1567 Late last month I received an email from Packt Publishing (en.wp), asking if I’d be interested in reviewing one of their new titles, Grok 1.0 Web Development, by Carlos de la Guardia. I immediately said yes, with the caveat that I’m traveling a lot over the next 30 days, so the review will be a little delayed (hence this pre-review). I said “yes” because Grok is one of the Python web frameworks that’s most interesting to me these days. It’s interesting because one of its underlying goals is to take concepts from Zope 3Zope Toolkit, and make them more accessible and less daunting. These concepts — the component model, pluggable utilities, and graph-based traversal — are some of the most powerful tools I’ve worked with during my career. And of course, they can also be daunting, even to people with lots of experience; making them more accessible is a good thing.

I’ve read the first four chapters of Grok 1.0 Web Development, and so far there’s a lot to like. It’s the sort of documentation I wish I’d had when I ported the Creative Commons license chooser to Grok1. I’m looking forward to reading the rest, and will post a proper review when I return from Nairobi. In the mean time, check out Grok, Zope 3 for cavemen.

You can download a preview from Grok 1.0 Web Development, Chapter 5: Forms.

1 The CC license chooser has evolved a lot over the years; shortly after Grok was launched we adopted many of its features as a way to streamline the code. Grok’s simplified support for custom traversal, in particular, was worth the effort.

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